I was taken aback when Mr. Fancy Schmancy shouted "A pox on both your houses!" as I was unaware that he knew of my summer home. Founding member of the Hogtown Irregulars, and former indentured short order cook still on the run. Professional Zamboni racer and bronze medal recipient in the 2010 All-Miami Outdoor Zamboni Championships.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

"A Texas teen claims she is forbidden from wearing a rosary around her neck in school because the Catholic prayer beads are a gang symbol, MyFOXDFW.com reported.

Tabitha Ruiz was stopped by security guards at Seagoville High School in Dallas last week and told to take off the silver and ruby beaded rosary, a gift from her mother. On Monday, the same thing happened when she again came to the school wearing the beads.

"I went to school, walked through the metal detectors and they told me to take it off," the teen said. "I asked them why and they said because it's gang-related."

Ruiz and her mother, Taire Ferguson, said they had no idea that rosary beads were a gang symbol. Police, however, are well aware.

"Lately they’ve been seen wearing religious jewelry such as the rosary worn by gang members, so it is a factor," Sr. Cpl Kevin Janse of the Dallas Police Department told the FOX affiliat

Listen, you unimaginably dense idiot, either she's a gang member or not. More than a billion people the world over consider a rosary to be a sacred religious symbol, so perhaps, just perhaps, mind you, it'd be a good idea to check on the young lady's reason for wearing the thing, and if nothing untoward arises then be happy you actually did your job, rather than kneejerk like some gestapo wannabe because a backwater principal says to.

By this line of reasoning, if gang members began wearing shiny badges to school then cops would be asked to take theirs off.